I remember playing the cabinet in the wild in the 2010s at the local flea market. The owner of the cabinet was a fly-by-night vendor and selling the cabinet for $800. It's a decent shump.

Sweet, new BOTP!! Thanks for all your hard work Mark!

That feeling when you realize Moon Cresta came out over 40 years ago yet still somehow runs better than Sol Cresta.

The meteorites at 2:47 are hilarious. That's so unfair.

Funny how it took until the Super Famicom version for a game called "MOON Cresta" to actually have a moon in it.

I played the Arcade Game as a Kid in 1980 In a Spain Hotel. Love it still today, and of course I have the Ps4 Version 🤘🤘🤘🤘

I liked this on my speccy back in the day, there's a bit of galaga and shades of phoenix in the gameplay. The advert for this game still sticks in my memory for some reason, it seemed to be in every mag for months.

BOTP is something I look forward to every week! I was not familiar with Moon Cresta until very recently, playing it on an emulated compellation cabinet. It has some interesting ideas and I'm sure that when it was released against the other arcade shooters of its time, it was something else.

Astro Wars!! It took me 40 years to find it's origins.

Still one of my all-time favourites to play using MAME - I never get bored of it, I just love those sound effects!!! 🤪

I didn't know that the Super Famicom has two graphic modes of Moon Cresta! That's amazing! Because of this, I would definitely say that the Super Famicom version is my favorite! 😊

I remember playing the arcade cabinet on many holidays when I was younger. But for some reason I didn't actually learn the name of the game until well into MAME's popularity and I decided to search it out. I still play it regularly to this day it's probably my favourite classic space shooter. I love the 'stackable' ship gimmick!

Glad you got a fun game this week after a few weeks of drek. I played a lot of Moon Cresta in the arcade, and it was the first Super Famicom cart I ever imported (though more for Crazy Climber)

Ah the classic farting Spectrum sounds! I loved that version as a kid but it looks like I missed out on a few better ones! Great video, I'll be playing a few of these ports later!!

so impresive for me. thank you.

This game!!!! This wonderful game!!! When I was 7, 8 yrs old, I would go to a bar, on my school vacations, and I would play this game a lot. The pattern of the enemies was very weird, and, they would take me out in a matter of minutes. I used to spend a lot in this game, in that bar, on my vacations. The other games I would play were: Phoenix and Pleiades. Have you covered them already ? Well, to shorten the story, when I got hold on the PS1 Nichibutsu classics, I got so :DDDDDDDDD Smile from ear to ear. I guess it was the arcade machine emulated. Well sir, you made this old man very happy. Keep up the good work!

This somewhat obscure old arcade game will always have rent in my brain because it was the first video game I ever played. Way, way back when I was barely forming permanent memories. I played it maybe three times in total, and got to the final stage at least once, though I'm pretty sure I never looped it. A pretty big deal, since I rarely played video games as a kid, and can honestly list all of them without running out of fingers. The reason I was attracted to this particular game? Believe it or not, it was the little "jingle" that plays when you shoot the enemies on waves 5 and 6. It is vaguely musical, and the chords really stuck with me. Now, imagine my surprise when they released "Sol Cresta" a year or two ago-a literal sequel to my private childhood history. It even features a soundtrack by Yuzo Koshiro. I was essentially obliged to buy that game.

I remember playing this game in a bar sometime in mid to late 80's and wondering how they made such a graphical marvel. xD Great video as usual, man. Have a great weekend.

This was the 1st arcade game that I became obsessed with at 9 yrs old. Gumbas Pizzeria in Cupertino CA had the arcade machine, and my family would go there every Friday night for dinner. Later, the 7-11 down the street got the arcade Vanguard, which was my next obsession. I didn't get a home console (2600) until mid 1983, after constantly badgering my parents 😂 Great times! There was something magical about growing up in Silicon Valley in the 70s & 80s. Definitely not the same anymore!

Thanks for mentioning the Dragon 32 port, even if it did not work. The dragon did not get very many official ports (thanks Incentive). Tons of clones, though - and some were rather good, even looking back now.

The SF version looks amazing!

I didn't notice slowdowns on real X68000 hardware. Moon Cresta comes bundled with Terra Cresta, which is an excellent port.

Thanks for the episode! This is another game I have managed to ignore thus far and now must try! Love the episodes with a many ports!

The essence of the early arcades. I played a lot to the CPC version when I was a child. I'm thinking to get the SFC one for my collection.

Oh yes, Finally! The Galaxians on crack shmup gets a BOTP video! Good episode as always, Mark!

I find it surprising that this didn't got ports for machines from the Japanese market in the 80's. This could had perfect ports on the Famicom and SG-1000.

Played this on my Astro Ciity Mini V and the Super Famicom port on my hacked SNES classic mini. Goodness this game is old.

I don't think I've heard of this one, but it looks nostalgic, reminds me of a lot of similar early space shooters I played on 2600 as a kid. I'll be sure to ask my physician if Moon Cresta is right for me.

Hampered by stupidly fast missiles and farting constantly, that's my life you're describing

Nichibutsu arcade games always have very loud sound effects. I guess it was their way of standing out in the arcades.

I'm about to get my hands on the Arcade Archives version once I get my Switch.

Nice. Another vintage game I got to try out in the 80's in the local bowling alley. Moon Cresta is both an enjoyable and equally frustrating game. With the wonky enemy movements combined with the limited player maneuverability, surviving long enough to have all three sections of the ship stacked is quite the accomplishment. I have the SFC cart as well as being able to play the PS1 port. Haven't tried any of the others. The meteor speed on the C64 port has to be a programing error. That looks like it makes it pretty much unplayable.

Nice video, I always enjoy your Battle of the Ports. You misspelled "port" though, 0:19 - 0:28. "The Dragon 32 pot" ;)

Dragon 32❤❤❤ I had one of these.. a game called ugh is my favourite game on this system.

I've been enjoying Sol Cresta (Especially after people saying it has performance issues) so I'm interested in going back to the Originals Moon and Terra. Good to know I have multiple options to try them out

I’m a little surprised that the X68000 port was slow. Also disappointed that the Beeb didn’t get a good port.

This brings back memories of playing this in the arcades - loved it. There’s another 80s arcade game I’ve been trying to remember that could be a Nichibutsu game where the space ships dropped enemies that would land on the bottom and tried prod you from underneath with sharp spikes as they walked about. Anyone know of this?

Thanks to Platinum Games' Sol Cresta, Moon Cresta's music just stuck in my head 🤣

Another great episode, Mark. I don't have any nostalgia for Moon Cresta, since I didn't play the arcade machine (well, in the 80s: I've played a moon cresta cab more recently) nor owned any of the home ports. From what I've played befoer in MAME, I do like it, but it's not one of my favorites. I like Terra Cresta more, but probably because I actually owned a port of that and played quite a bit of it.

There's a good homebrew port for the Atari 7800 too.

The original arcade ROM had sections of slowdown. The Super Famicom port is VERY Close to the arcade; the S.F. version never made it to the SNES here in the U.S., so I would I encourage every retro arcade fan to pick up the Japanese SF copy.

Had this for the 48k Speccy. I thought it was one of the better shooters on the Speccy and wasn't monochrome which a lot of Speccy were.

I honestly think Terra Cresta is way better, but this is a decent game too

Oh man! Much as I use to like the game Mark. The beeps and buzzes in the Arcade version really use to hurt my ears that caused a ringing sensation. For that reason I had to stop playing it. 8^( Anthony..

Looks quite typical for a game of this time period, though the ships scaling into the foreground is more advanced than a lot of games did back then. It reminds me of Galaga a bit, but with more irritating sound effects. Weirdly enough, none of the versions seem to match the arcade enemy movements exactly, as even the Playstation version seems a bit faster. Though, that's assuming MAME is even emulating the arcade speed with 100% accuracy. This isn't the type of game that can keep my interest, but if I was around back in 1980, I'd probably view it much more optimistically.

Mark, in your personal opinion should someone want to play arcade games from the Japanese, American or world version? Much censoring or other things in different regions? Thanks for the video 😁👍

C64 port: WTF?!😵😵‍💫

I've never heard of this one, and it really does not look like I've missed much.

So the next one is Terra Cresta, right?! :)

The sounds effects from the arcade version sound like they came from Galaxian.

How the deal are you meant to dodge those meteorites on the c64? Me smells a robocop level 4 on c64 type deal lol

Perhaps the slowdown in X68000 version can be fixed by playing the game in a X68030 (or in a emulator with overclocked CPU). Some games can run too fast (Full Throttle) with it too.

Wonder where the Super Famicom music came from?

Yeah that X68000 version is just slow. was it an early title?

0:23 is that meant to say X6800 or Xb800?

I was never very good at this one. I could never get the enemy patterns down right. Possibly because I played so much Galaga.

you forgot to say that this game is a clone of the arcade Galaxian.

No Atari 7800 or Windows ports?

C64 version looks bugged ?

This rather average game must feel like a masterpiece after covering Brutal, HKM and Robocop 3.

Terrible game, I don't like any version (I played this in the 80's)